New Garden/Old Garden

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Hi everyone, I’m so new to this website and its taking me time to get around things. I’ve been so busy in the garden as well and I will be busy over the next few months. I bought the property I am currently living in just over a year ago but owing to having to do lots of work in the house itself I only managed to move into it in September of last year. The garden has had to wait but it was full of rubbish and very overgrown.

I have now managed to get a patio laid and a terrace at the bottom of the garden where once stood an old shed and loads of rubbish. There were also 15 huge confirs there but the previous owner removed those but has left the stumps. Anyone any idea of how to get rid of them without bringing someone in to cut them down further! I was lucky to inherit a wonderful wistaria which has been grown as a tree right on the boundary of the garden and where I have just had a fence erected, but the wistaria must be all of 25 years old and has been wonderful this year. I have also inherited a magnolia tree, a double flowering ornamental cherry, a thornless holly, a red robin and another bush which I have no idea of its name. Loads of tulips, daffoldils, english bluebells, forget-me-not, cowslips, primroses, and now some other plants which I have no idea what they are. They are bronze leaves with a bronze stem from the middle with loads of bright orange flower heads. I also have the problem of the mares tail which is growing through everything but I am reluctant to start digging about until everything is through and I know what I have. I will try and upload some photos and will keep looking through your photos and blogs for ideas of planting (although I have some ideas of which I like myself and its just about everything lol!)

Have no idea how to prune the wistaria though, and I have a rose which grew to about 7 ft tall and has the most powerful perfume, I cut it right back and its now growing high again, so I don’t really know if I did the right thing as I have little knowlege of roses. I also cut a Himaylan honeysuckle right back because I understood you can but it appears I’ve lost that one, and as its tubular (hollow stems) I wonder if it will grow back or not. Hope you enjoyed my blog and any help would be appreciated, will have to work on the front garden soon, will now try and upload the pictures.
Sandra

• 31 May, 2010
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